Marin Mazzie Leads CARRIE at MCC in 2012; Full Season Announced!
By: Jessica Lewis May. 31, 2011
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As BroadwayWorld reported back in April, the musical revival of CARRIE is currently holding a development lab at MCC through June 7, 2011. The lab began on May 25, 2011. Stafford Arima is directing, Matt Williams is choreographing, and Mary Mitchell-Campell is musical directing.
Today it has been announced that the first casting for an off-Broadway run has been set, in addition to the first performance dates. Preview performances will begin at MCC on January 31, 2012. Carrie will be led by Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie (Next to Normal, Kiss Me Kate) as Carrie's evangelical mother, Margaret White, and Molly Ranson (Jerusalem, August: Osage County) as the lonely, vengeful, yet fragile girl at the center of it all.
In Carrie, Carrie White is a misfit. At school, she's an outcast who's bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she's at the mercy of her loving but cruelly over-protective mother. But Carrie's just discovered she's got a special power, and if pushed too far, she's not afraid to use it...
Additional works to play the MCC 2011-12 season include:
A World Premiere September 8 - October 16, 2011The Submission
By Jeff Talbott
Directed by Walter BobbieShaleeha G'ntamobi's stirring new play about an alcoholic black mother and her card sharp son trying to get out of the projects has just been accepted into the nation's preeminent theater festival. Trouble is, Shaleeha G'ntamobi doesn't exist, except in the imagination of wannabe-playwright Danny Larsen, who created her as a kind of affirmative-action nom-de-plume. But a nom-de-guerre may prove more useful as the lies pile up, shaky alliances are forged, and everyone dear to Danny must decide whether or not to run for cover as the whole thing threatens to blow up in his lily white face.
Wild Animals You Should Know
By Thomas Higgins
Directed by Trip CullmanMatthew and Jacob are an unlikely pair of friends. Matthew is a soccer star, full of brio and teenage swagger. Jacob is, well, not. Beneath the surface, though, the two are locked in an innocently erotic game of cat and mouse. When Matthew's reluctant father, Walter, is wrangled into chaperoning the boys' trip to a wilderness scout camp, he finds himself drawn into their adolescent game. But Matthew has secretly decided just how far he's willing to go for his final act of scouting and everyone might do well to heed the scout's motto: Be Prepared.
Playwright Thomas Higgins makes his New York debut with this tale of ruin and redemption that takes a magnifying glass to the sometimes blurry line between predator and prey. Trip Cullman, renowned for Off-Broadway hits like A Small Fire and The Bachelorette, will direct.
"We are wrapping up our 25th Anniversary season, and it's been an amazing year," says MCC Artistic Director Bernie Telsey. "We've always been about developing new plays, fresh voices, and challenging artists. Earlier this year, David Duchovny made his stage debut in The Break Of Noon, a bang-up world premiere by our Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute; Laurie Metcalf won both Obie and Lortel awards for her performance in Sharr White's The Other Place, which was also the author's New York debut; and now Joely Richardson is returning to the stage in Michael Weller's Side Effects, and she's magical. It's the kind of work Bob, Will and I love, and we think we are going raise the bar even higher next season. Jeff Talbott's The Submission was developed entirely at MCC; it's his playwriting debut and has already won the Laurents/Hatcher Award, and we are really excited to put him together with Walter Bobbie as director. Our pal Trip Cullman returns to direct a play Joe Mantello introduced to us, Thomas Higgins' Wild Animals You Should Know, and yes, Thomas is another author receiving a New York debut. And what can I say about Carrie? We've been in love with this piece since we heard a reading two years ago, and we can't believe the amazing work that Larry, Michael, and Dean are already doing with Stafford to reconceive the show for the MCC stage. It's so moving, and Marin Mazzie and Molly Ranson are going to knock people out."
Season subscriptions for all three 2011-2012 mainstage productions are priced at $109-$149 and are available by visiting www.mcctheater.org. Individual tickets will go on-sale at a later date. All performances will take place at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC).
MCC Theater is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary season as one of New York City's leading Off Broadway theater companies, committed to presenting New York and world premieres each season. When MCC Theater was founded in 1986, its mission was simple: to bring new theatrical voices to theater-going audiences. MCC Theater continues to accomplish this yearly through three programmatic areas: its mainstage works; its Playwrights' Coalition, which actively seeks and develops new and emerging writers; and its Education & Outreach Programs, including the Youth Company, which allow more than 1,200 students yearly to experience theater, increase literacy and discover their own voices through the creation of original theater pieces. Notable MCC Theater highlights include: the 2008 Tony Award-nominated reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute, last season's The Pride, Fifty Words, the 2004 Tony-winning production of Bryony Lavery's Frozen; Neil LaBute's Fat Pig; Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living; Marsha Norman's Trudy Blue; Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit; Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone and Alan Bowne's Beirut. Over the years, the dedication to the work of new and emerging artists has earned MCC Theater a variety of awards.
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